I know that you want people to love and respect you but most people do not love or respect themselves. They do not know how to give these things to you. They judge themselves way to harshly and come up short in their own expectations, so if they judge themselves that way, they will judge you even more. So I say do not wait for their approval but give yourself your own approval to respect yourself enough to love yourself and believe you do deserve to be happy and not just a few days but everyday of your life. This is your purpose in life to be happy, to have love and respect in all the days of you life. The secret in doing this is doing it for yourself and not waiting on others to do it for you.
If you give yourself permission to have love and respect, you will be happier and more emotionally and spiritually stronger in life. You will be more center and at peace. You will be more capable at handling your problems. You will not let life roll on top of you but being at the center you will roll much easier with life.
Our happiness start with ourselves and so does our love. We cannot continue to be beggars in life for these vital things. We cannot let others to control us by their empty promises to love us more or working hard to earn their respect that never comes. It lies within our own hands whether or not we are loved and respected. Our happiness is what we give to ourselves or allow ourselves to have. It is our choice to make.
Allow yourself to have what you were meant to have. You were meant to be happy, to have love and to be respected, not just by others but most importantly by your own self.
God believed in us enough to give us his only begotten son so don't you think it is time to believe in yourself if God believes in you.
